i'd prefer to have him talk, it was annoying with the movie bee and annoying with the minicons in Armada, i don't think it should be the characteristic of the character, maybe if he was forced to talk through his communicator I'd accept it more but Ratchet quite obviously doesn't make a very good medic if he can't figure some way to repair or replace his voice unit.

Exactly, Ratchet hasn't got enough energon to give Bumblebee a new mouth. Besides Raf can translate for him (how exactly I wonder of course, Bee doesn't sound like he's using Morse corde) and in Exodus it was said he could speak from time to time, so hopefully he will.

He should be able to talk. I think the only ones that should be able to make noise like that are drones or lower class bots like minicons. Having bb not talk sort of downgrades his importance. May not be the intentions of the writers.

Exactly, Ratchet hasn't got enough energon to give Bumblebee a new mouth. Besides Raf can translate for him (how exactly I wonder of course, Bee doesn't sound like he's using Morse corde) and in Exodus it was said he could speak from time to time, so hopefully he will.

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Yeah, that only bugs me slightly. I know they are trying to push the idea is Raph is a computer wiz, so that may be why, but they really need to explain it just a little more. I'd be ok with just one little scene: